The economic crisis has hit the world's richest people hard with only 793 people now able to appear on Forbes Magazine's "rich list" of world billionaires. 332 names were wiped off the list! Only 44 people in the list managed to increase their money compared with 656 who lost money. Interestingly, 9 of the top 20 in the rich list made money from discount retailing, including Karl Albrecht, the german owner of Aldi supermarkets.
The top 5 were:
- Bill Gates (US) Software $40 billion
- Warren Buffet (US) Investments $37 billion
- Carlos Slim Helu & Family (Mexico)$35 billion
- Lawrence Ellison (US) Software $22.5 billion
- Ingvar Kamprad & Family (Sweden) Retail $22 billion
Top "Billionaire Cities"
- 55 billionaires - New York
- 27 billionaires - London
- 27 billionaires - Moscow
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